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var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "/token"){ Content = content };
                var responseToken = httpClientToken.SendAsync(request).Result;
                var resultToken = responseToken.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
                var jsonResult = JObject.Parse(resultToken);

                var httpClientCreateSurvey = new HttpClient();
                httpClientCreateSurvey.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://clear.pandolink.com");
                httpClientCreateSurvey.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
                    new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                httpClientCreateSurvey.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization =
                    new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", jsonResult["access_token"].ToString());
                var responsePando = httpClientCreateSurvey.PostAsync("/api/extension/survey-account",
                    new StringContent(surveyJson, Encoding.UTF8, "text/json")).Result;
                var result = responsePando.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
                jsonResult = JObject.Parse(result);
                var pandoAccountId = jsonResult["AccountId"];
                return pandoAccountId.ToString() == "0" ? "" : pandoAccountId.ToString();

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What would be the RestSharp equivalent?

I am struggling with what would be the RestSharp equivalent of ReadAsStringAsync( ). I am glossing over that when serializing the response.Content but I am not getting away with it.

Particularly, I am struggling with the extraction of the value of "AccountId" from the jsonResult var:

 var pandoAccountId = jsonResult["AccountId"];
                return pandoAccountId.ToString() == "0" ? "" : pandoAccountId.ToString();

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Here is my attempt so far:

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Dear Community,
I am looking for cloud backup solution for a G Suite businness
I need a cloud backup solution allowing incremental backup, access rights and granular search.
i need a solution in cloud no physical server and NAS.
Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Regards,

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I am new with SQL Server.

A while ago I installed SQL Server 2016 in Windows 2012 R2. I set up the maintenance plans to do daily backups of the database and transaction logs.

Those maintenance plans worked just fine.

I recently decided I wanted to a text file of the backups to get created. so I modified each maintenance plan to send a report (.txt) to the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log" folder.

I did this by modifying the maintenance plan and clicking the icon for Reporting and Logging. Then selecting the checkbox for "Generate a Text file report", select Create a new file, then specified the path above.

Each time the maintenance plan runs, I see an error in the history:

Access to the path 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\\MSSQL\\Log\\Backup DBs_Subplan_1_20200207170004.txt' is denied.

I tried changing the path to the same one the backups go to but still got the same error.

Very perplexed.

Why would it be able to write all other logs to the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log" folder but not the backup reports?

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Does anyone have something that will allow the below step #4 ?

1. currently a library has 20 Window 10 Pro PCs
2. every night a software like one of the below software packages are run to REFRESH the PC back to the original IMAGE
** https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/enterprise/unified-write-filter
** https://horizondatasys.com/reboot-restore-rx-pro/
** https://centuriontech.com/enterprise/
3. about four times a year I manually update each of the 20 Window 10 Pro PCs with a new version
of special locally installed LIBRARY software / etc that is not already on WSUS, Ninite, etc
4. instead of doing the above #3 I would like to just update ONE PC,
having the image easily CLONED to the other PCs
** I am willing to have everything on a HyperV VM on each PC if needed

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Hi,

A module of our software system is to allow users to upload files to our on-premise file server which runs Windows 10 Pro.

We need to replicate every file uploaded to secondary storage medium to restore them in case a failure in main storage medium.

Please, I need your help in creating, configuring such disaster recovery plan.

Thanks,

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Hi Experts.

I have a custom template that contains hundreds of building block entries. Unfortunately, the file has corrupted and, whilst I have backups, they seem to exhibit the problem too. Is there any way to extract the building blocks? I was hoping that they might be accessible as one of the 'parts'.

Many thanks for any help.

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Dear Experts,

I would like to speed-up the process of upgrading my Workstations from Win 7 to Win 10.
For this reason I have purchased Acronis True Image 2020 in order to clone a pre-configured SSD drive (GPT, Basic).

All Workstations are hardware identical (motherboard, ram, cpu, ssd model and size, even the case is the same).

The cloning result seems successful but I am facing the below issue:

I use Computer A in order to clone the Win 10 and turned-off Computer A.
On Computer B, I installed the first cloned SSD and powered-on the Computer.
Computer B was successfully booted to Win 10 but I noticed that after powering on Computer B, Computer A was also powered-on automatically.
(this has happened more than once, so it is not a random case)

Of course Computer A and Computer B are under the same Network and imagine what will happen if the rest cloned computers have such behavior.
Finally, if I remove the Network cable from Computer A, it will not boot-up once Computer B is powered-on.

Awaiting your comments,

Best Regards,
Mamelas

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Looking for a good cloud based backup for Windows 10 PC.

Ideally, backs up everything EXCEPT programs, including downloads folder so that downloaded apps can be reinstalled in the event of a Windows re-install being required.

Want it to auto run every night at a time I define in middle of night.

Suggestions?

Thanks

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if we're taking backups daily ie every 24 hours (timings
of the backups (the backups can end between 1am to
4am, depending on how much is there to backup),
what's the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) we can
commit to? 24hrs or 30 hrs or it's 48hrs?

In the current risk management doc, it's indicated
as 48 hrs but since I joined not long ago, checking
if this is correct?

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I have been using a 4 TB external hard drive to do time machine backups. time machine stopped working
about 6 months ago and it says that time machine is not working...the drive is read only. I have previous time
machine backups on that drive. What has caused this and what should I be doing about it?
Thanks,
capreol

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I am trying to track down what should be an obvious question, but one which seems to be ignored on the 'Net:

When you enable an application-consistent backup in VMware, it configures the VMware Tools component inside the guest operating system to take a VSS Snapshot, which then engages all of the active VSS Writers to ensure that all data write activity has been quiesced prior to the backup. This is all the easy part.

Now for the hard part: What happens if the system administrator never sets up shadowcopy storage within the OS? Or, more directly, do you need to configure the operating system's VSS storage (i.e. vssadmin list shadowstorage) in order for this to work? I have seen references that VMware handles the snapshot duties, which would seem to imply that you do NOT need shadow storage configured. However, I can also see where the VSS environment within the guest OS would depend on it, and it might refuse to allow a VSS snapshot to occur without storage being available. Which is it???

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Can files from a native Windows Server 2012 R2 backup be restored on Windows 7 or 10?
Server is having issues and we're trying to discover all options

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I need to take a backup of Whatsapp from an iphone 6s , and another backup from an Android phone; and merge the 2 backups in one Whatsapp on an android phone ;
How can this be done ?

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My client owns a retail store with several PCs. He would like to place a Synology NAS in his home and backup his store computers to that home NAS directly, across the Internet.

What is the way to accomplish this? Or, what are the options I could explore, for accomplishing this?

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I want to back up my machine using Acronis. But it says it can't back it up until I turn off Bitlocker.
When I go to Control Panel --> System and Security --> Bitlocker Drive Encryption, it says "BitLocker waiting for activation". There is an icon to "Turn on BitLocker".

Do I have to turn it on before I turn it off?

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I've been using the Windows 7 "system imaging' in both Windows 7 and Windows 10. I've been successful restoring images but I don't feel it's 100% reliable. I recall that I've used it about 25 times and it failed miserably two or three times.

The other day I had to do a replace a failed drive with a new SSD and then restore a system image that I created about three months old. The restore failed. The restore process saw the image and started the preparation to image the replacement drive and it failed with a number of errors that I did not document. I tried this three different ways. First, I booted from a system repair disk, the second time with the actual Windows 7 media and the third time, I actually installed a base Windows 7 operating system and attempted to restore the image to no avail. I ended up having to totally rebuild the PC and restore the data from backup.

- I believe that the Windows 7 system image is a "byte by byte" image and not a "sector by sector" image which means, if I'm installing a new SSD to replace the hard drive, the SSD needs to be equal or larger in size

I'm not a big fan ACRONIS, mainly because of the so many different versions to purchase and the install is quite large. Maybe down the road, I'll practice more with it to become more familiar with it

So my question is
- is the Macrium Reflect 7 free version more reliable than the Windows 7 system imaging version?
Read good things about this product. I know that it performs sector by …

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I need to restore a system image on a server 2012 R2 machine.

I've booted recovery options from a 2012 R2 Disc, but re-image wizard says Windows cannot find a system image on this computer. Ive read this is a common issue.

The image was originally saved to a nasbox and i pulled the entire "WindowsImageBackup" folder from it onto the root of an external hard drive.
If i cancel the error and browse for driver, i can see where file explorer sees the external drive with the folder in it.

How to i make the recovery wizard see the backup folder and continue the restore?

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After a power outage and my ESXI Host had a hard shutdown when I was able to bring everything back up my Veeam Backups are no longer running and I am getting the following error.

Current vSphere license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.
Error: Current vSphere license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.

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Attempts to install Windows Server Back Role on a VM (Server 2016) fails.

I have reviewed various known issues that were posted regarding this issue in the past such as
group policy issues, language update issues, and so on. None of those previous historic issues are relevant to my server.

I currently use Veritas to run backups but this single VM seems to fail and I am attempting to troubleshoot that issue by testing if I can get a successful backup using Windows Server Backup.

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Question by

Bill Herde

2019-12-12Solved

S3 file version managment

For compliance we need to maintain native SQL backups. On-prem systems use Veeam backup which easily gathers daily SQL backups and manages a retention policy of daily for 2 weeks, end of month for 6 months, end of year for 7 years. The company is now building the next technology stack on Amazon Web Services and the S3 bucket version management is woefully simplistic. I have created a lambda to trigger a native SQL backup once a day, and hoping to be able to manage the version retention, it simply overwrites the file in S3. This DB is expected to grow to around 4TB by the end of the year, so paying to store every version every day for 7 years is out of the question.
Has anyone in this group come across, or written a lambda (or other widget) that can be triggered to look through S3 previous versions and prune the excess according to a selected or defined retention policy as described?

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Question by

patron

2019-12-11SolvedPrivate

SRM 8.2 not Visible in v Center 6.5

Recently Installed SRM 8.2 Appliance but not visible in VC 6.5 ?

Earlier windows based 6.5 SRM was in use we have removed that nd further done fresh appliance installation

In VC -Web client plugins can see one plugin named SRM standalone 6.5 is that valid plugin to be used for SRM 8.2 appliance
How to get this fixed so that SRM is visible for further configuration
VC 6.5 U3 is also running as appliance

Please help to fix it -Thanks!!

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Hi,

I need to restore just the DB file of Exchange (EDB) to a non Exchange server. I have CommVault. I think we need to install Exchange agent on the destination server no?

Where can I download it?

Thanks

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Hi Team,

We've been having issue this past few days with one of our VMs used as fileshare. When there's tons of I/O intensive task like backups and deleting stuff on the fileshare. The VM crash and we get the following error:

The hqdprv-file03-000001.vmdk seems to be causing the issue.

Here's the datastore for the VM:

Is there any outlers? If you need any more information, please let me know. I would like some pointer on how to rectify that situation

Thank you for your time.

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What external USB3 hard drive do I need for Windows 2019 Server Standard edition X64?

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Question by

Nolan Mason

2019-12-05Solved

RAID6 URE Risk Acceptable, or Have to Go RAID10?

My client has a 12-bay Synology DiskStation DS3617xs NAS filled with 14TB Seagate IronWolf Pros. It will be used in an adjacent building with Active Backup for Business to backup the server and 40 workstations.

Sadly, according to support, triple parity isn't an option with Synology, so I'm trying to decide whether it's reasonably safe to go with RAID6 or if the only logical choice is RAID10.

I've understood for a while that the size of modern hard drives makes RAID5 a bad idea due to the likelihood of an unrecoverable read error during a rebuild. I've seen a small amount of discussion on whether RAID6 is a good idea, but haven't come across any details other than rebuild time. I have no first-hand experience for what kind of duration to expect when rebuilding a 140TB array.

My own take on whether RAID6 is reasonably safe is that a rebuild would only fail with a single drive failure if two of the remaining drives both had UREs on sectors that contain the exact same data. Granted, if you have two concurrent drive failures, you're in the same boat as with one drive failure on RAID5, nervously biting your nails and praying that the rebuild finishes.

Is my understanding of the minimal risk involved with UREs and RAID6 accurate? How much time is it likely to take to rebuild after a drive failure?

Thanks!

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